As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

